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...military’s operations over the previous decades had left the Arsenal heavily contaminated with pollutants. At the time of the closure recommendation, the work to be done at the complex included cleaning the facilities and soil, decommissioning the remnants of a research reactor, and reclaiming portions of the Charles River...
...France. Since nuclear power accounts for more than 75% of French electricity, a good chunk of that money is likely to go toward upgrading existing plants or building new ones. edf's dominant supplier: Areva, which has already picked up an order for a new-generation pressurized-water reactor to be built in the Normandy town of Flamanville from 2007. Lauvergeon and Areva are on a roll these days. Nuclear power, written off as dead throughout Europe and much of the rest of the world over the past two decades, is suddenly back in fashion. The public still shudders when...
...shop for nuclear energy, with revenues last year of $13.5 billion and almost a one-third share of the market. Unlike its key competitors, Westinghouse and General Electric, Areva spans all aspects of the business. It mines and enriches uranium ore to make nuclear fuel; it designs and constructs reactors and helps operate them; and it recycles the spent fuel and packages the remaining waste. An engineer by training, Lauvergeon worked as an aide to the late French President François Mitterrand before joining the Lazard investment bank. In the late 1990s, the government asked her to take over...
...that led to the resignation of the Green party from government, Finland approved the utility's application because of worries about climate change and uncertainties about securing future energy supplies. The party was held in a glass tent on the spot where the core of the new pressurized water reactor is to be installed, and none of the partygoers was happier than Anne Lauvergeon, a former French civil servant who is chief executive of Areva, the French company that won the contract to build the $3.6 billion plant. Hailing a "nuclear renaissance," she said the laying of the foundation stone...
...French attitudes towards the technology. France pushed through an aggressive nuclear energy program in the 1970s after the first oil shock. While the share of nuclear energy worldwide is just 16% of the total, it is five times higher in France, which has 59 of the world's 440 reactors on its soil. More are on the way: last year, the government approved the launch of a new generation of reactor, with the first one scheduled to be built-by Areva-in the Normandy town of Flamanville starting in 2007. Just how big could nukes become? Jean-Jacques Gautrot...